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Joint Cabinet Crisis Kingdom of Mercia Joint Cabinet Crisis Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations “Shaping a New Era of Diplomacy” 28th November – 1st December 2019 JCC – Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations Study Guide 28th November – 1st December Welcome Letter by the Secretary Generals Dear Delegates, we, the secretariat of HamMUN 2019, would like to give a warm welcome to all of you that have come from near and far to participate in the 21st Edition of Hamburg Model United Nations. We hope to give you an enriching and enlightening experience that you can look back on with joy. Over the course of 4 days in total, you are going to try to find solutions for some of the most challenging problems our world faces today. Together with students from all over the world, you will hear opinions that might strongly differ from your own, or present your own divergent opinion. We hope that you take this opportunity to widen your horizon, to, in a respectful manner, challenge and be challenged and form new friendships. With this year’s slogan “Shaping a New Era of Democracy” we would like to invite you to engage in and develop peaceful ways to solve and prevent conflicts. To remain respectful and considerate in diplomatic negotiations in a time where we experience our political climate as rough, and to focus on what unites us rather than divides us. As we are moving towards an even more globalized and highly military armed world, facing unprecedented threats such as climate change and Nuclear Warfare, international cooperation has become more important than ever to ensure peace and stability. During the last year our team has worked tirelessly to turn HamMUN into a platform for you, where you can grow as a person, step out of your comfort zone and be the best delegate you can possibly be. We can’t wait to share it with you and are looking forward to an unforgettable time. Yours Sincerely, Leah Mathiesen & Tobias Hinderks Secretary Generals 1 JCC – Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations Study Guide 28th November – 1st December Introduction Letter by the Crisis Directors Dear esteemed delegates, We are Lukas and Robert. After already having the honour to serve as crisis directors in 2016 and 2017 (Lukas) and 2018 (Robert), we decided to team up to provide you with the best possible crisis experience. After the epic clash between the Christian and Pagan armies in the Great Scandinavian Crusade in 2016, the struggle for power in the Baltic Sea between the merchants of the Hanseatic League and the pirates in 2017 and the fall of Rome to the hordes of the Huns and other barbarians last year, we decided to go back to the roots. This year’s crisis will evolve around the invasion of the Great Viking Army in England in the year 866. We are glad to welcome you to our crisis committee and we are sure that it will be an unforgettable experience. As you will probably recognise soon, researching and preparing for a historical crisis is different from the preparation for an ordinary UN-Committee. Sometimes it is very hard to find useful information and if you find any, they often contradict each other. Since our main goal is to provide you with an interesting and challenging setting for the crisis and not to deliver a historically accurate depiction of England in the year 867 (which would be difficult anyway since only very little written sources from that time have survived until today), we took the freedom to reinterpret the historical setting. Although it is still broadly based on the historical England, we incorporated events that are more likely to belong into the realm of myths (like the legend of Ragnarr Loðbrók and his sons), made assumptions on the life of real historical persons or even introduced entirely fictional characters. So, if the google search on your character does not deliver any results, do not panic. The information we will provide in our Study Guides, Rules of Procedure and the Charcter Information you will receive prior to the conference you will be well prepared for the crisis. If you conduct your own research, you are of course welcome to do so. You can assume that everything until 867, happened as it did historically unless specifically stated otherwise. Everything beyond that point will be decided by your actions and probably heavily deviates from what happened historically. This said, it should be obvious that this Study Guide is not scientific work. It is more fiction based on a historic setting than it is an adequate depiction of the time. This 2 JCC – Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations Study Guide 28th November – 1st December also means that for your research watching TV shows as Last Kingdom or Vikings is probably as valuable to get an idea of the historic setting as reading scientific books and articles. If you have any further questions you can contact us at [email protected]. Finally, we want to thank our amazing team which helped us to compile the information you can find in these Study Guides and without whom the simulation at HamMUN would not be able to function. Many thanks to every single one of you! Many thanks also to the crisis directors of the JCC at HamMUN 2018, Matej Lovrenovic and Arkan Diptyo who came up with the introduction to crisis section which was so comprehensive that we only needed to change a few minor details for this year’s Crisis RoP. This said, we can’t await to seeing you at this year’s HamMUN! Kind regards, Lukas Hofmann and Robert Fedler 3 JCC – Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations Study Guide 28th November – 1st December Table of Content Welcome Letter by the Secretary Generals ................................................................................ 1 Introduction Letter by the Crisis Directors ................................................................................ 2 Table of Content ......................................................................................................................... 4 1. History ............................................................................................................................. 5 2. Policy ............................................................................................................................... 6 3. Society ............................................................................................................................. 7 4. Religion ........................................................................................................................... 9 5. Military .......................................................................................................................... 11 6. Character Biographies ................................................................................................... 12 6.1. Burgred, King of Mercia ........................................................................................ 12 6.2. Ceobred, Bishop of Leicester ................................................................................. 12 6.3. Ealhhun, Bishop of Worcester ............................................................................... 13 6.4. Ceolwulf, Ealdorman of Worcester ....................................................................... 13 6.5. Æthelred, Ealdorman of Gloucester ....................................................................... 13 6.6. Æthelred Mucel, Ealdorman of Lincoln ................................................................ 13 6.7. Clerebold, the monk ............................................................................................... 13 6.8. Knud, the defected viking ...................................................................................... 14 6.9. Gerald the spy ........................................................................................................ 14 6.10. Æthelswith .......................................................................................................... 14 6.11. Vauquelin, the mercenary .................................................................................. 15 Information about the Conference ............................................................................................ 16 1. Conference Schedule ..................................................................................................... 16 2. Rules of Procedure ........................................................................................................ 17 3. Emergency Phone Numbers .......................................................................................... 17 4. Important Addresses ...................................................................................................... 17 5. Public Transport ............................................................................................................ 17 6. HamMUN App ................................................................. 18 7. Water Supply .................................................................... 18 8. Please bring cash! ............................................................. 18 4 JCC – Kingdom of Mercia Hamburg Model United Nations Study Guide 28th November – 1st December 1. History The history of Mercia is like the other 6 Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms of the so called Heptarchy that dominated most of post-Roman Britain until the unification of England in the 10th century. Presumed to be founded later than the kingdoms of Wessex, Northumbria and East Anglia, as well as the smaller kingdoms of Essex and Sussex, it centred around
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